Apparel-corset.



D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.-

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 26, 1917.

Patented Jim. 8, 1918.

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DANIEL KOIPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y,

APPAREL-CORSET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in AppareLCorsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparel corset and mere particularly to an improvement in the type of garment shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,215,287 granted to me February 6, 1917. The apparel corset as illustrated in this patent is so constructed that at the sides thereof portions of the garment are made to bridge parts of the body of the wearer, and in order to accomplish this purpose each half of the garment is provided with means placed between spaced stays whereby a portion of each corset body half is caused to extend across a depression in the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom at this depression. The purpose of this construction, as stated in the Letters Patent aforesaid, is to fill out the depression or hollow which occurs above the hip bones, and immediately below the waist section in extremely thin women, in order to give the body at these portions thereof curves of more g'aceful appearance.

In this form of garment experience has demonstrated that in some instances the side or gore sections of the corset wrinkle due to the weight of the outer clothing, and from other cans s, and the object of the present invention is to overcome this difficulty in the type of corset to which the invention relates. I have found that this dii'iiculty may be overcome by employing in this form of corset a tension strap which may be applied to the section of the garment at which the gore members are connected, or to the lower portion of the body of the corset proper, or tension straps may be em ployed in both places and adapted to be connected to the hose of the wearer so as to exert a downward pull in order to main.- tain the side portions of the garment in a flat or unwrinlrled condition, and the garment made in accordance with this l1lV811- tion will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the corset garment made in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of one Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Alan, a, time,

corset half showing a portion of the garment broken away to illustrate the construction more clearly.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal cross section of the parts of the garment to which the present invention relates, and

Fig. i is a diagrammatic plan illustrating the form of gore sections before they are connected to one another.

in carrying out this invention the corset garment is preferably made in halves and as the halves of the garment are similarly constructed, but one of them will be herein particularly described. The corset body halves are indicated at 10 and 11, and as customary, are provided along their front edges with corset steels 12 and clasps 13 by which the front edges of the garment may be connected, and as is also customary, at their rear edges the halves of the garment are fitted with eyelets 1a through which laces 15 are threaded in order that the garment may be properly adjusted to position on the body of the wearer.

In each corset body half there are suitable stay members, and as indicated in Fig. 2, a stay 16 is provided. at the rear of the axillary line, and a stay 17 forward of the axillary line. Between these stays 16 and 17 there are gore sections 18 and 19 completing the continuity of the half of the garment and preferably constructed as indicated in Fig. a and as described in my Letters Patent aforesaid. The upper gore member 18 is connected in the garment along its opposite et ges adjacent the stays 16 and 17, and the lower edge of this gore section. is curved as indicated at 20. The gore section. 19 is secured along its opposite edge adjacent the stays 16 and 17, and at its upper edge is also curved as indicated at '21. The curved lower edge of the upper gore section 18 convex, and the curved upper edge of the lower gore section is concave, being however or a different curvature than the lower edge of the .upper gore section. These curved edges of the upper and lower gore sections are secured to one another along lines of stitching indicated at 22 so as to provide in the garment a hip section which in use is spaced from a depression which may be above the hip bones of the wearer of the garment as described in my aforesaid patent.

In the present invention I employ a tension strap 23 preferably tapering in configuration and secured at its upper edge by the same lines of stitching 22 which connect the curved edges of the gore sections to one another. This tension strap 23 extends clownwardly to a point approximately at the lower portion of the body proper of the garment and is provided with a depending tape 24. adapted to be connected to a hose supporter to exert a downward pull from the line along which the gore sections are connected. As indicated in the drawing, I may also employ a tension strap 25 which is also of tapered configuration and secured at its upper edge by lines of stitch-ing 26 extending between the lower end portion of the sta-ys l6 and 17, and by which this tension strap is secured to the lower portion of the body proper of the garment. This tension strap 25 lso extends downwardly to a point at or adjacent the lower edge of the skirt 29 of the garment. There it is provided with a hose supporter extension 27. As indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawing, the lines of stitching 26 are omitted centrally of the upper edge of the strap 25 so as to provide an opening between the upper edge of this tension strap and the adjacent overlying portion of the garment through which opening the lower end of the tension strap 23 extends.

Also, as indicated in Fig. 2 the tape 2% lies.

between thetension strap 25 and the overlying skirt portion of the garment, and is conneeted along a line of stitching 28 or otherwise, in the lower end of the strap 25 by which also the hose supporter extension 27 is connected thereto.

While I have herein shown and described the double extension strap construction, it will be apparent that either one or the other or both of these tension straps may be employed in carrying out this invention. The function of the tension strap 23 is to assist the gore sections in performing their functions, the downward pull exerted by this strap tending to force the gore sections along the line of their union, away from the body and thus to extend across and to be spaced from any depression there may be therein. The function of the tension strap 25 is to assist in maintaining the lower portion of the hip section of the garment in place against the body of the wearer and hence is quite the opposite of that of the upper tension strap 23. It will furthermore be apparent that these tension straps will perform their respective functions whether employedv Copies of this patent may be obtained for caused to extend across a depression On the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom at said depression, and a tension strap attached to and depending from that portion of the corset body half between the said stay members at a substantial distance above the lower edge thereof and adapted to'exert' a downward pull from this portion of the garment.

2. in an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, gor members placed at the side of the garment and connected together adjacent the waist line so as to cause a portion of these gore members to extend acrossa depression in the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom at the said de pression, and a tension strap secured to and depending from the said gore members to exert a downward pull thereon in the use of the garment.

3. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, gore members placed at the side of the garment and connected together adjacentthe waist line so as to cause a portion of these gore members to extend across a depression in the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom at the said depression, and a tension strap depending from the line at'which the said gore members are connected together.

l. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half thereof, an upper gore member, a lower gore member, the said gore members being placed at the side of the garment and connected together adjacent the waist line so a to cause a portion of these gore members to extend across a depression in the body of the wearer and to be spaced therefrom at the said depression, a tension strap secured to and depending from the lower gore memher, a tension strap secured to the upper and lower gore members along the line at which these gore members are connected to one another, and a tape connected at one end to the lower portion of the last aforesaid tension strap and at its opposite end to the lower portion of the first aforesaid tension strap.

Signed by me this 2% day of October, 1917.

DANIEL KOIS,

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